Suzuki Guitar, or Suzuki Violin Company Nagoya (hereafter referred to as
Nagoya Suzuki), is from the Nagoya area of Japan.
There was one Suzuki company before the 2nd World War. After the war, a entity created by the US and allies called GHQ (for General Headquarters) dismantled some parts of 'Imperial' Japan and some companies were closed or restructured. In Suzuki's case, the company was separated into:
- the Suzuki Violin Company, changing to the Kiso Suzuki Violin Company and
- the Suzuki Violin Manufacturing Company came to be called the Nagoya Suzuki Violin Company.
Kiso Suzuki went bankrupt in 1987 and the machines and materials were sold to ESP.
Nagoya Suzuki stopped making guitars in 1989.

Their guitars have printed on the label 'est. 1887' but that date has more to do with their production of violins. The production of guitars seems to have started, like Kiso Suzuki Guitars, in the 1950's.

This is a blog dedicated to older Suzuki Guitars. Suzuki Guitars have been around since the 1950's and have attracted a growing interest by players and collectors alike. The company may be known by the generic label "Suzuki", but there are actually four different Japanese companies that have manufactured guitars under the name of Suzuki during the 50's to the present time - Kiso Suzuki, Nagoya Suzuki, M Suzuki (Manji Suzuki) and Suzuki (modern company) but Kiso and Nagoya have a common ancestry - maybe modern Suzuki too but I am not sure yet.

Kiso-Suzuki manufactured guitars in the region of Kiso-Fukushima, Nagano prefecture.

Nagoya Suzuki manufactured guitars in the region of Nagoya Japan. And they manufactured about the same number of models as Kiso, but with different numbers.